Haste Quotations

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.

When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak.

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.

Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.

Make haste cautiously.

The more haste, ever the worst speed.

He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

Haste is a poor counselor

Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!

Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.

Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner

Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.

From a strategic point of view, this sale allows them to narrow the spotlight on being a maker of premium cars. There was some haste to get this done and had they had more time and a relaxed schedule to get this done, they might have been able to get more for the business.

What do we tell our children? ... Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

Haste makes waste;Waste makes worry; So do not be in a hurry.

Know this: that whatever situation you find yourself in, it is what is necessary for your development. An entity must apply in its associations from day to day a word here and a word there, one today, another tomorrow, and the next day, with the understanding that from such activities in word and deed, self-development will come... When an entity has prepared itself through constant forward movement towards service, the necessary circumstances for change will come about so that he may see the next step, the next opportunity... Haste not and be not over-anxious; for is not the whole of the building of His making?

It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone

Unfortunately the spirit of the event, as it was originally conceived and as it has been presented to the appropriate civic groups and government officials since November 2004, seems to have been lost in the haste to stereotype all graffiti-style artists as 'vandals' and to brand this event as a 'promotion of crime,' ... At its core, this is an event designed to celebrate an art form born from the streets of New York over two decades ago as a means of creative self-expression, allowing the public a unique chance to experience the workmanship and skill that go into creating a piece of art fine enough to hang on the walls of any traditional gallery or museum. Upon completion, a 48-foot mural will be donated to The Point, a Bronx-based nonprofit youth development organization, while the remaining nine will be placed throughout the city for public display.

We didn't buy this with any haste to do anything quickly.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.

Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not attained his noon.

saves Israel again from the embarrassment that the haste of the government has caused throughout the world and from the feeling we have imposed unnecessary injustices on many Palestinians.

It is showing, I feel, a degree of haste that is unnecessary and perhaps irresponsible.

Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; / Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.

But if, around my place of sleep,The friends I love should come to weep,They might not haste to go.Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloomShould keep them lingering by my tomb.

A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

Do not spoil the wonder with haste!

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

Good and quickly seldom meet.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Too great haste leads us to error.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.

He gets through too late who goes too fast.

If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.

All systems in Pakistan appear to be in a haste to achieve something, which can have both positive and negative implications. Let us take a pause and examine the two fundamental questions: One, are we promoting the rule of law and the Constitution? Two, are we strengthening or weakening the institutions?

The Foreign Relations Committee will move with haste to confirm Gen. Powell, so that he is available to serve the president on his first day in office.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Haste in every business brings failures.

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

The more haste, the less speed.

Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.

Haste is blind and improvident.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

All haste implies weakness.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.

Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to live." -Cassiel

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

Quick enough, if good enough.

Haste is of the Devil.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon.

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.

Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves.

Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.

My day shall be filled to overflowing, yet shall I not haste the day; nor shall I waste the day.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by Congress.

Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Take time for all things.

Reckless haste makes poor speed.

Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.